From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:09:45 +0000 (WET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602100904170.1697@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060206141318.72867080@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
>
>> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is
>> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved
>> somehow?
>
> The early part of the startup information is available from
> dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
>
I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged:
$ cat /var/log/boot.msg
* Activating (possible) swap ...
[ ok ]
* Checking root filesystem ...
/home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks
[ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
[ ok ]
* Setting hostname to moria ...
[ ok ]
* Calculating module dependencies ...
* System.map not found - unable to check symbols
[ ok ]
* Checking all filesystems ...
/boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks
/1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks
/dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks
/dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks
/dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks
/dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks
/: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks
/dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in 2 mounts)
/dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks
[ ok ]
* Mounting local filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
[ ok ]
* Activating (possibly) more swap ...
[ ok ]
* Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
* Configuring kernel parameters ...
[ ok ]
* Updating environment ...
[ ok ]
* Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ...
[ ok ]
* Cleaning /tmp directory ...
[ ok ]
* Coldplugging input devices ...
[ ok ]
* Coldplugging isapnp devices ...
[ ok ]
What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end
(net, local, etc.) ?
Is this normal?
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Jorge Almeida
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-10 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 13:39 [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen Fredrik Lundgren
2006-02-06 14:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 17:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2006-02-06 17:33 ` Harry Putnam
2006-02-06 20:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-06 21:13 ` Peter Ruskin
2006-02-10 9:09 ` Jorge Almeida [this message]
2006-02-10 9:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Robert Crawford
2006-02-10 10:46 ` Michael Kintzios
2006-02-10 17:04 ` Robert Crawford
2006-02-06 14:18 ` Michael Kintzios
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